Times are tough all over, and theater groups are no different.

Salt Lake Acting Company, one of Utah's more dynamic and challenging theater groups (when it's not raking in the bucks in the summer with the tried-and-true "Saturday's Voyeur"), announced that it is laying off four of its top employees as a "precautionary measure."

The four losing their jobs are:

• David Kirk Chambers, managing director
• Mike Dorrell, dramaturg
• David Mong, literary manager and press spokesman
• Mary Cranney, marketing director

Nancy Borgenicht, "Saturday Voyeur's" co-creator, will return as interim executive producer until a new boss is chosen.

Anne Stewart Mark, president of SLAC's board of trustees, said ticket sales are not down. She called the layoffs an effort to "streamlined staff by mutual agreement to restructure our organization with a reduction of the work force."

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